Reading the Muslim Mind

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HASSAN HATHOUT Foreword by Ahmad Zaki Yamani

OY... in a while a book comes

along that can reshape the thinking of the

world.

One person at a time. “Reading the

Muslim Mind” is just such a book. Dr. Hassan Hathout starts out from a simple

observation—a lifetime of biculturalism (the Egyptian-born physician has lived in Britain and now resides in the USA) leads

him to note that “Islam in the West is widely known for what it is not.” This encyclopedic personality (doctor of medicine, thinker, speaker, poet) sets out to guide the reader

on a comprehensive tour through Islam. For this voyage, he supplies a keen and lucid “anatomy” of the Islamic life. But more: he provides, with incisive clarity, the inner guidebook; he uncovers the tracing of the mind at work behind the practice, the spirit

behind the letter, the rationale and the

Ultimate Reason, God. For non-Muslims and what Dr. Hathout aptly calls the Judeo-ChristianIslamic world tradition at large, the trip

proves illuminating and always thought-pro-

voking. For Muslims, it will re-anchor and enrich their faith and offer vital and timely answers to up-to-the-minute dilemmas of

life at the brink of the millennium.

The

book addresses key issues of our time from

the Islamic perspective. Dr. Hathout in this wise, warm and inspiring work is speaking to the audience of humankind, in the Age of

Selfishness, “Microtheism” and Godlessness. In his clarion call of hope, the author knows that when a “minimum critical mass” turns to cooperation and understanding, real change is possible.

To

be known for what one really is, is nothing less than a basic human right, Dr. Hathout notes.

Here then is Islam as it (really) is,

and the world as it (really) can be.

Reading The Muslim Mind

READING THE MUSLIM MIND

Hassan Hathout WITH A FOREWORD BY

Ahmad Zaki Yamani

American Trust Publications

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Library of Congress cataloging in publication data Hathout, Hassan. Reading the Muslim Mind / Hassan Hathout; with a foreword

by Ahmad Zaki Yamani. Pp, “em: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89259-156-0. — ISBN 0-89259-157-9 (pbk.) 1. Islam. I. Title. BP161.2.H84 1994 297—dc20 94-46150 CIP

TO THOSE WHO ARE COMMITTED TO LOVE, TRUTH AND THE HUMAN FAMILY

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About The Author Hassan Hathout is a physician, scien-

tist, teacher, speaker, thinker, writer, poet and ethicist, as well as an Islamic scholar. He is one of those encyclopedic personalities reminiscent of older times. As an Egyptian American, he is bicultural and bilingual. Appalled by the

distorted image of Islam in the West, he has made it his mission to explain Islam

as it (really) is. He is the author of eight books and innumerable medical and non-medical papers and articles.

Cover: The cover illustration, designed by the author, depicts an electroencephalographic tracing, symbolic of the book’s title.

Printed in the United States of America

Americans will certainly respond favorably to the sincerity and the forthrightness of the book. The book often shows the penetrating wisdom a mind is capable of... (Frank Vogel, Harvard Law School). The book will have an important role in religious studies classrooms (including my own). (Crerar Douglas, Department of Religious Studies,

California State University, Northridge). Dr. Hathout addresses live issues which members of no religious community can ignore. . . .He guides the reader on the path of intellectual discourse previously chartered by great Muslim

scholars like Imam al-Ghazzali. (Sulayman Nyang. , Howard University).

ISBN 0-89259-156-0

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